Elizabeth's Kitchen Diary
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Oven-roasted chorizo meatballs, made with homemade chorizo sausage and leftover roast pork, combined with rich homemade slow-cooked chicken stock, dirty carrots, celery, local potatoes, Shetland kale and lashings of cream make for a perfect winter chowder. Best eaten outdoors. Prep Time: 15 minutes Cook Time: 1 hour Difficulty: Moderate Leftovers: another (wo)man’s treasure One of …
In this cauliflower cheese soup, cauliflower and garlic are roasted before being combined with potato, chicken stock, herbs and The Laughing Cow light creamy spreadable cheese for a lighter winter warmer without compromising on flavour. This recipe post has been sponsored by The Laughing Cow. As always, all thoughts and opinions expressed are our own. …
With just a few simple seasonal ingredients, make this warming, creamy potato and leek soup which pairs perfectly with warm, crusty bread.
It’s no myth that a good, comforting bowl of soup can do wonders for us during the cold and flu season. In this collection easy soup recipes I’ve handpicked ten of my favourite nutrient-packed, easy soup recipes you can make for a little bit of TLC. Why is a bowl of homemade chicken noodle soup, …
This easy, versatile chicken noodle soup recipe is made with leftovers from a Sunday roast chicken dinner, including leftover gravy. It’s easy to tailor the recipe too depending on what you have lurking in your fridge needing to be used up. This ‘Flung Together Food’ recipe post has been created in collaboration with Love Food …
This delicious and warming spicy carrot soup contains seven different store-cupboard spices, as well as fresh ginger and garlic. It freezes and reheats well too, so you can batch cook it if you’ve got a glut of carrots. Finish off with a swirl of chilli-infused olive oil for an extra kick!
This leftover roast lamb soup is ready in just under half an hour if you use a pressure cooker. It makes for a perfect packed lunch to fill you up with plenty of vegetables, pearled spelt and green split peas. This recipe is in collaboration with Lamb, Try It, Love It. This post also …
Hearty and filling, this traditional soup from the wild and remote Shetland Islands is made from reestit mutton, a salted and brined preserved mutton unique to the islands. Come this Spring I’ll have called Shetland home for twenty years. Seven of those I’ve have been tinkering away at this food blog. I can not believe, …
This simple yet flavoursome soup features chervil, a mildly anise-flavoured springtime herb. A perfectly poached egg floats in the middle. It’s veg box time again! Springtime means we start receiving deliveries from our organic veg box providers – springtime vegetables such as rainbow chard, mixed salad leaves, baby kale, spinach and the last of …
In collaboration with Pomora. Did you know that this week is International Sweet Potato Week 2018? This week, food bloggers all over America and Europe will be celebrating the wonderful versatility of the humble sweet potato. The sweet potato has its roots in Southern and Central America, where evidence dates back to their use for …
The taxman has emptied my bank account. Not even kidding. I was priding myself on having saved up enough money to cover my projected tax bill for the year and even dared allow myself to think I might have a little bit left over to buy myself a new laptop for the blog (I’m desperately …
A hearty & filling winter vegetable soup made with homemade lamb bone broth, leftover roast lamb and seasonal vegetables. In collaboration with Tasty, Easy Lamb. Craving a hearty filling soup at the end of these long, cold, dark days? For this recipe, I’ve made a delicious and nutritious bone broth out of leftover roast lamb …
and a Sunday walk around the southern tip of West Burra, Shetland. What a beautiful summer we’ve been having! This summer has honestly been one of the best summer’s weather-wise, we’ve had in a very long time. The BBC news reported recently that it’s been sunnier up here in Shetland than it has in Cornwall, …
In collaboration with Grana Padano and Prosciutto di San Daniele. It’s that time of year where the days are lengthening and brightening, but there’s still that cool Spring breeze and occasional snow shower reminding us that winter isn’t quite finished with us yet. Hot soups are still desired, but not the thick heavy comfort soups …
“Mum, you should make this soup in a restaurant! It’s SO good!” This thick, creamy and delicious cauliflower soup is made with bacon and leftover Christmas brie; perfect for pouring into a soup flask and taking on an adventure. Random fact #1: my husband qualified to play at the Norsk Bordtennis Mesterskap (Norwegian Table Tennis …
A delicious to-go soup recipe plus the Big Outdoor Bloggers Cleanup! This week sees the Big Outdoor Bloggers Cleanup – a country wide litter pick helping to tackle the problem of single use plastic. It’s also my husband’s week off work (the nature of his work means he works six days a week for five …
A winter orca-chasing coastal walk and a warming bowl of soup. There seems to have been an increase in the number of orca sightings around our beautiful islands over the last year, for some reason. So much so that a Facebook group (Shetland Orca Sightings) has been set up by Shetland Wildlife specifically for people …
I’ve got a stinking cold. I should have anticipated this and batch cooked some comfort food in advance. When the kids go back to school after every single holiday break they always bring home some new viruses from their peers; viruses picked up on holiday, new variants to our remote little island. Variants none of …
In collaboration with üutensil and Albert Bartlett potatoes. It’s the time of year where our diet is largely dictated by what appears in our weekly organic CSA veg box. It’s been a slow year for growing so far, our veg box producers say, due to cold weather and rain, but we are now receiving weekly …
The Ptarmigan – Scotland’s highest restaurant at 1090 metres. Situated in the top station on Cairn Gorm Mountain, in the most unexpected of places, you’ll find Scotland’s highest restaurant – The Ptarmigan. At 1090 metres/ 3500 feet above sea level it’s no problem to access thanks to Scotland’s only Funicular Railway – a train carriage …
